PhD in History

Kelley Denton Fincher

Kelley is a PhD candidate in history and a graduate teaching assistant. Her dissertation, “‘All Personnel Profit’?: Domestic Labor of Military Families in the Post War and Cold War Eras,” explores daily life and household burdens of American military families in the conscription era following the Second World War. She is a former military officer and mother of two young children.

Recent Presentations:

“Volunteering to Get Out of the House: Military Wives and Childcare in the Postwar and Cold War Era,” Society for Military History Conference, March 2023

"Constellations of Care: Military Wives and Childcare in the Postwar and Cold War Era," Southern Association for Women Historians Conference, June 2022